I sat nearby on the sea front as a tourist in 2014 and I made a typically flippant but weirdly prescient comment to my wife. I looked around at all the timber buildings and said it wouldn’t take much for this place to go up in smoke. Sadly, I was proven correct. Good to see the recovery.

This was my coming of age first vote. Voted to stay in. Spent my entire career working inside the EU alongside colleagues across the union. Lucky to retire before Brexit was finally inflicted on us, because it would’ve made my role as a European Sales Manager nigh on impossible.

Thought I might pop up the road to check it out but quickly realised you mean BHM, not BHX😉 The original Brum clearly came 2nd when it got its IATA code. My fave EOWilson quote from memory? “Genes, like Leibnitz’s Monads have no windows, the higher properties of life are self emergent.”

He’s going full on for the Darwin Award!😂😂

We were in a dark sky area on the coast in South West Wales and sat out on a warm night on the 10th May 2024 to watch the sky dance over St Brides Bay. Clearly visible once your eyes adapted. Sadly my phone pics don’t do it justice.

Very true. My dad was in the 1st assault wave on Gold beach on 6th June. Wounded later that day, he lay for 2 days on a stretcher in a Norman church & spent a year recovering in hospital. A keen footballer, he trialled for Arsenal FC before the war but disability prevented him ever playing again.

Carbon capture is an unproven play from big oil to con the world into thinking we can keep burning stuff and clean up the mess later. In reality, with each step up of the Keeling curve we are ambling through one way doors to many tipping points with no way back for millions of years.

This is also possible, if not highly likely with further carbon emissions. It could mean all of Northern Europe experiencing Arctic like winters & cold summers with a very short, or non existent growing season. We’re creating climate chaos, not warming everywhere! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’m offering 50:50 odds we’ll now have either a totally washed out, or a long 40+ Celsius baked out summer. What d’ya think

So what’s your take on pay as bid vs pay as cleared as outlined here by Dale Vince? www.threads.net/@therealdale...